The Magic City: Manhattan in color in 1943
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- This is a short film by Don Kelly consisting of footage he shot (on 35mm color film) in the streets of Manhattan in 1943. We see lower Manhattan, Fifth Avenue, Central Park, and Times Square at both night and day, as well as footage he shot on the Third Avenue El when it was still running in Manhattan. (It wasn't torn down until 1955.) We see double decker buses and trolley cars. Some of the scenery looks the same today (Fifth Avenue and Central Park). Some of it looks very different. The people, of course, look very different today. It's quite a magical glimpse 70 years back, thanks to the time machine of motion picture film. I recorded this from the program, Classic Arts Showcase.
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How beautiful New York was. People look so respectful and kind. Not like today! My grandfather was 23 in 1943 and lived his entire life in the West Village.
They're all in the suburbs I reckon.
I remember waiting at the Bus stop. and I was talking with a 98 year old lady. She told me she was born 1918 in New York. So when this Video was made she was 25.
I just feel so honoured about it. I had a conversation with someone who was actually alive at that time and even as an adult. 🙄
Awesome
good old times
hope she’s still here around then
Show video to the lady
You might even have dated her if you were her age.
Why it's already modern in 1943
If u want 2 have a forever love affair just be in the city of New York during this time and after . You fall head over hills in love walk look learn smell touch meet talk listen. She is a challenge but we stay. I did1977 til 2016. Loved every minute of it. Thank u 4 this stunning footage.
It’s sad we have to look back to these 80 year old films to remember when America was a nice place.
My grandfather was born in 1927 near New York in New Jersey. He was 16 when this was recorded. I wonder what he was doing during this exact time. He was doing something. Pretty weird but cool to think about. Rest honorably Robert Savage, we’ll always miss and love you♥️
It was in the middle of ww2 and everyone is so calm and just going about with their lives. What a great country.
The people that shot this old footage were doing the lords work. My favorite thing to do is watch these old films of NY. Thanks Don Kelly!
I was in born in NYC 25 years after this video and not much had changed based on my earliest memories. I did get to ride the 3rd ave el just before they ended the last part of it that was still running in the bronx. Actually many of these buildings still exist today.
Thanks for showing this to me as i was 10 years old then and my friend and i come down from the Bronx on the subway to look at all the sights and sounds of Times Square as a new world opens up to us and what i remember we stop at Sigmund Kline gym who was all muscle and so we became weight lifters and body builders because i wanted to grow muscle myself and still got them today.
Im from Korea and sincerely respect you for being alive and watching this video . For me, im feeling little bit weird, because at 1943, my country didnt even exist..
You'd miss the 40s,no Facebook,TH-cam,Instagram,Fortnite. I want to time travel back to 40s NYC :(((
and today, most of NYC people are slobs and idiots for allowing this once wonderful city to degrade to third world status due to communist thug city government.
@@pauleypavillion6088 The communist running around NYC is now running around in DC making friend with communist countries that hate America.
Eisen J Eisen well good old times
Both my parents remember this more respectful NY. They're still living and active at ages 90 and 94. One uncle who served in the Navy, is also living at 98.
God bless them.
Marie Katherine Wow Bless them.
Marie Katherine amen
God bless them
❤️
How magical those towers must have seemed to people of the time.
Nice talk, but you should probably understand that they never became better than that, this was the peak of america. Don't imagine these people like cavemen, you have the footage in front of you to tell that we were far advanced, do you see any automobiles sputtering? Any people lynching a black man? Dispair?
This video is priceless. New York so fortunate to have a "normal" and peaceful life...while the whole world is in major war. Huge cities are being bombed in Europe and soon Asia. It would be so interesting to know what was on the minds of all those people going about their business. WW2 had to be central on their minds someway or somehow.
@As I was saying, Well, my parents were the WW2 generation. I always heard what life was like from them.
America was winning in those days.
@@user-or6yn8pm3c Но Россия воевала гораздо больше, и потери населения граждан и военных гораздо выше чем у Америки, если бы не она то Америка бы сосала
Looks so peaceful and calm. No a days it's dangerous to walk around NYC in certain areas but just watching this makes one wish they could be in that moment.
Thanks for posting this! This footage is great. People in 1943 actually took care in the way they dressed before they left the house.
+LazyLamont92 Said a guy called Lazy.
They still do. People dress up more now than they did back then. So many different styles of fashion these days.
It was all classy back then. Not like the tramp dress code of today.
On what planet?
Who cares if people dressed better? It is meaningless. I prefer the casual style of today and the informality of modern American life. I lived in a country that is quite conformist in dress and behavior (Japan) and it is not only a lot more work, it is also characteristic of a society where strangers do not easily mix in public.
My parents grew up in Brooklyn right around this time so this movie was fascinating to me.
As did my Grandparents in Greenpoint and Williamsburg! This was what their city was like!
While you watch this peaceful video of people living their daily lives, just picture in your head what was happening on the the other side of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the exact moments of this video.
men being killed by the nazis. Jews suffering in concentration camps. Wow
Classic Arts Showcase! I used to love that channel. What a beautiful film. When I clicked on this to watch it I found that I had already watched and liked it in the past, but it was good to see it again.
Yes NYC is magic I have many great memories there , the village grand central times sq. thank you for the memories!!
Agree with you! NYC is magic!
@@marigeo6583 Was
Coolest NYC video ever! Streets are much busier than expected.
Except in relation to this short film, there is nothing about Don Kelly on the internet. He looked to be in his mid 20's back then, which would put him in his mid-90's if he was still around. I'm glad he took the time to document the city as he did.
I really enjoyed this nostalgic trip back in time... about 6 years before I was born (in NYC). I agree with the comment below about how people took more care about how they looked in public.
hi de brain, i was born in nyc that year oct 2, 1943, my mother and father was born in nyc both of them in 1910. in those days people were treated with respect, regards Louie Vaccaro, las vegas resident now.
@@louisvaccaro5865 I;m in Florida. With the crap going on right now in NY & around the US, makes me wish for the old days more than ever. Be well & stay safe..
@@dabrain7045 thanks for your reply, when i was 14 years old my father took me to his waste paper stock business on desbrosses st in down town ny during spring break and i had to work very hard making bails of scrap paper, 50 hours a week. for this i was paid 15.00 dollars a week, not much money but it kept me out of trouble. that was 62 years ago. i learned a valuable lesson about how hard it was to make just a little money.my two brothers worked for my father also. the work was so hard making bails of paper weighing in excess of 2,000lbs, everything was hard manual work. but life was good back then, people learned to respect each other. now we have rioting in the streets, peoples rights are abused for many years, i believe that. we are told black lifes matter, i believe that, i also believe all lifes matter. when the people who are rioting dont get their way, they loot, and burn peoples businesses down. thats the right way?. bad enough so many people have died from this dreaded disease corona virus, now we have to deal with people being shot and killed, one woman who was in her own home, when the police busted in her apartment, by mistake and shot her 8 times, and killed her by mistake they entered the wrong apartment.i dont know what the answer is but i hope people can learn to live in peace, and i hope all the abuses are addressed and people can live a better life, and hopefully they will have medicine that will cure this virus. god bless america, stay safe, and all the best Louie Vaccaro.
@@louisvaccaro5865 take me back to the 50s...a time of true recovering and locales galore, a station job repairing fast modern automobiles with pride or stopping down at the local jerker to arrange an order of a cup of joe and a strawberry milkshake...leaving in a 1954 beginning condition Studebaker back to my home to eat dinner and sleep a quiet wishful night. If I had the ability to travel back in time, I'd probably work my way in helping Segregation between the white party and black party and their uncivil feud between each other, knock the idiots head down who changed Sasparilla to Sarsaparilla like the pyscho they are, put some sense into people minds about some things, but most importantly....never remark about the future, it can only lead to catastrophic events that will insue when people find out things....my aunt watching the news of "man from the future" while my uncle stays behind at the old saloon instead of them walking by each other, never creating their future children and having a future together. Everything could go wrong by Timetravel, like walking through an old spider web carefully constructed trying not to make a tear, its not just dangerous...it is so maddening infact, you could walk into a store and people can look at you for one second instead of helping the man who would be saved that day suffocating on food in the back of the diner, dying right there because I wasn't there the last time that exact event took place; think like the groundhog day, how he dramatically changes events by small movements from demeanor to flat out impervious actions.
In other words, it is not just being from the future and keeping your mouth shut...you...are a biological wall of event that can interact with any object around you and change it from what it was originally meant to be, you are touching the exact unique insanely prwcise accurate time period that makes the future exactly how it is, countless could die that hadn't been born yet just by simple non harmful actions. you are a new energy source in a recreated time period that should not be messed with, if we ever do create time travel...it would all be wrong, everything; you mustn't do anything, not a wrong move, not a talk with many people... something will be bound to change when you return to the future, but I'm sure 16 thousand events had already changed, newspapers recreated from the precise history of put on combinations of time lines that were once in it, changed ever so slightly or drastically. Back to the future had the impression of this, but not as severe as it truly would be
Fascinating images.Thank you.
Big city , you could live without a car and use public transportation, knowing bus routes , subway routes, train routes, imagine being king of the time schedule getting to and from anywhere you wanted !
Imagine how the mood was back then...the city just went through 10 years of depression and now it is the depths of World War 2, and in 1943, it was very uncertain we were actually going to win, D-Day was still a year away and the nation was blind-sided by Japan just about a year before. The whole of NYC must had been holding its breath and anxiety through the roof...but still the people, for the most part, kept their heads high. You can notice a eerie calm in this video, very interesting.
Yup
@@tengygt7042 Though your statement that Dresden had buildings over a thousand years old is somewhat exaggerated (closer to 400/500 years) I agree that the 1945 bombing was totally unnecessary and simply at act of attrition. Unfortunately war brings out the worst character of mankind on all sides.
Tengy GT "Most Germans had no choice and definitely didn't agree with Hitler..." Of course they would say that after they were defeated...ask them the same question in 1941 when they controlled most of Europe and Russia and you'd get completely different answers.
@@tengygt7042 This is so much nonsense. The German nation brought all of the misery on themselves by democratically electing a Nazi warmonger and then supporting his genocidal campaign of conquest and destruction. All the cities you mentioned were centers of industries crucial to the German war effort. Also, after Germans turned Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry and numerous other cities across Europe into rubble they don't get to complain that the Allies responded. War was not won until it was won. At the cost of millions of people of Allied nations, mind you. In 1945 the Germans were still inflicting heavy losses on the western Allied forces and the Soviets. They could've surrendered earlier if they didn't like having the tables turned, ie being on the receiving end of fire and destruction, instead of inflicting it. The German people largely supported Hitler though, you can read about that in many books. I personally recommend Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners. In fact, even after all the Nazis atrocities were widely exposed to the general public, both German and international, and some perpetrators tried and sentenced by the Nuremberg tribunal, many of the Nazi criminals lived cushy lives in post-war Germany. Even the worst kind of former Nazis found jobs in the post-war government and industry. For example, the German chemical and pharmaceutical industry might was built by former Nazis when they got out of prisons after serving only short sentenced for their war crimes. In fact, the German willingness to confront its crimes is a thing of late 60s, 70s and 80s when a younger generation of Germans took a much more critical view of their parents' generation's actions. So please stop spreading this misinformed guff.
Adrian Ziółkowski Great,well-informed post.
Watching this and realizing that it was the middle of the war, every time I saw a guy in uniform I had the thought “I wonder if they made it” great video
Interesting to see WWII era NYC, especially Times Sq, Rockefeller Center and the very nice looking girl with the great shades towards the end of the film. Also MOMA looking much as I remember it in the sixties.
The filmmaker has a great eye. Some beautiful shots in this.
Great ass also!
@@maxpower3206 quit it with the gay jokes it is uncalled for
Seeing the GI's and sailors reminded me that WW2 was raging at this time. Wasn't born yet but my father was a tanker in the US Army preparing for D-Day, 6 June 1944. Pearl Harbor had occurred 2 years before - "a day that will live in infamy". How many of the GI's and sailors in this film died in battle? On the homefront everything seemed peaceful and normal. What a time in history.
It’s so beautiful, people are dressed very nice it’s amazing almost 80 years ...
I know most people are talking about the fashion and such, but I am mostly impressed by how they were able to build such tall buildings even back then.
1:39 The most majestic building in all of New York, even today. The Woolworth. What a beautiful piece of film. I especially love the way they experimented with all kinds of angles; makes for dynamic footage.
Wish I could have alive then to experience such...but thank you for letting me get a glimpse of life then.Loved seeing this!
This was well before my parents were born. So many of the sights and scenes are the same today; amazing video!
Such a different time.People were walking and not staring down at their phones.
And most of the people didn't have even a TV.
I would love go back to New York in that time just to tell those Military people thank you for your service my Dad was over in Europe fighting the Germans he was on Omaha Beach on D-Day 1944
That generation live long lives. My dad is a Korean War Purple Heart and Medal of Honor recipient. He’ll turn 94 in May’24. My mom is also 87 years old and they are both VERY strong and healthy. However, I’m going to take exception to your “more respectful time.” comment. My dad is African American and served with great bravery, but once he stepped onto U.S. soil after refusing to go home and continue to fight after a bomb exploded near his knee- he caught the bus home from the Philadelphia Naval Base and was told he would have to sit in the back of the PTC bus. Of course he refused, and no one had the courage to move him because of his size. So your “more respectful time” statement is relative to a person’s color. That was in 1955. He spent 37 more years in the national guard and army reserve AFTER all of that and received many, many more awards. He was the FIRST Black man to run the Pennsylvania NCO school and did so honorably for three(3) years and was forced into retirement in 1992. Even during those years, he still had to fight racism directed at him in the military. Fortunately, he loved the US Army so much that he fought those battles and won and was backed up by military brass in Washington D.C. He still loves the US Army but hates what the country is becoming……a bastion and safe haven for those who hate.
Always amazed at how well dressed everyone is in these videos.
Do you dress well every time you leave your house? Do you put on a button down shirt with a tie and a straw fedora just to go to the park?
Very interesting footage.
So fewer cars back then. i can't help but feel that it was better.
There was gas rationing then, most people got 3 gallons a week.
If the 35mm film is still around this footage should be scanned in a higher resolution!! The 35mm film has the detail density of a 6K digital video file.
The most modern Kodak Vision 3 stock was measured having around 3.2K. The older the stock the lower the resolving capabilities, with good quality 35mm stock from the 60s or 70s barely going over 2k. A footage from the 40s would not even be able to resolve full HD. Yes, you can digitally scan a 35mm at 6K but it won't RESOLVE detail at that resolution. You can scan 16mm at 6K too, but obviously the level of detail will be much lower.
And the speed corrected ? Or did these guys know exactly how fast to turn that little wheel ?
Wow. It actually looks like somewhere you'd like to visit back then.
I can't imagine anybody would ever want you to visit.
Beautiful and well dressed people!
Thanks. I saw this on the CAS today. Along with well-dressed, everyone looks scrubby-white like the cameraman. Still, the sharpness and color lend an immediacy to The City.
Was just thinking about that my mother was in a death camp on polond
Even back then Manhatton was awe inspiring .
What a great video! Thanx
Looks so much the same as it does now. Save the 3rd Avenue El, and obviously the clothes and cars, it could be today. Great video.
I wish photographer (Don Kelly?) had the forethought to capture clearly and closely a few of the car *headlights* . Uniquely, for the years of WWII, they had (as near as I can recall as a child of 5, at the time) the top half of the headlight lens *blacked out* as mandated by the government. This was done supposedly in preparation for a possible air attack.
A lot of people smoked in those days. A guy got on the bus with a cigar. I remember when you could smoke in hospital waiting rooms and cafeterias.
Folks sure dressed nice in those days !!
Fabulous clip. It's a masterpiece.
I like how everything goes fast in the night shots because he had to do long exposures.
Looks like the home front was doing pretty well in 1943
Everything was in neon!! Make neon great again!!!!
놀랍네요 고층건물들보면 오늘을 사는 사람들도 감탄이 절로 나올만하네요
오래전에 서구의 문화의 발전 대단합니다
Like a Hopper painting.
I was born in 1962 in remote Siberia, in the city of Yakutsk. I have never been and probably will never see New York again, but I know that New York is the best city in the world at all times!
Central park made sense....it was a whole different retreat, like mountains far from civilization. Now thanks to 111 west 57th, 432parkavenue, and central park tower......this..will always be different and seen as a manmade fake place to give you a short break
The trees had such color to them, the buildings shined bright and made sense with the city. At day it was a massive environment of hardworking and enjoyable sites along the way, at night a world of neon and fazaz and the galores and locales of enjoyment. What I miss the most is seeing the Chrysler building still looking extremely tall compared to everything around it...
They had open top Bus Tours then , did not know. a moment in time not to be repeated. People dressed up to be downtown. with that comes more polite manners. A uniform separate you from the rest of civilians. Thanks for share.
Best footage & music vid of old Manhattan!
this is great thanks for the upload
I was stuck in one of the elevators of the Empire State building in 2003 for over half an hour following a fault. Being the size of a small room it wasn't a claustrophobic experience. As well as a couple of other people there was a group of teenage school students with a teacher in there as well. I remember the teacher getting very angry with one of the girls because she kept on whispering dirty suggestions to a friend which she clearly intended others outside their group to hear.
the women all looked so glamorous and the men so debonair....what an amazing thing...
WOW THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!
Thank you for posting this. Also the music is very relaxing.
cool how the men were wearing suits with gangster style hats
Can't help but notice too many monumental buildings have been demolished. They should've just built that next to Manhattan. We'd have had both.
As a New Yorker I say 1940 NYC WAS MUCH CLEANER .
Do you do your part to help keep it clean? If so what do you do?
didnt know nyc had double decker buses at this time
in 26 years this will be 100 year ago
Pencil fluff...... in 26 years i will be 49 years old 😧😞
Amazing when you realize how fast time really does go by.
What in the world even though I was born like 50 years after the 40s that's so weird.
Pencil fluff...... 23 more years encounting since you wrote this statement. Lol! In the year 2043, I’ll be 75 ...and you?
@@jeantetreault132 some where around your age lololol
In those days, they really put a lot of hand work in the art-deco of the period. Then the box 70-80s and even early 90s, people stated the buildings were ugly (and many were). but it's really nice to see the new materials that are stronger make these cool curvatures and amazing heights which has brought much joy back to building highrise and super skyscrapers of today. cities with in cities.
No, they have not. That glass will never ever in an infinite amount of time, compare. Even if..every person started dressing maturely, it wouldn't change everything that has already done its horrors of damage to Manhattan since the 1960s..
Wow. The Dakota. Filmed about the time Lennon was born.
Amazing outstanding memories 😍😘😘
I so loved the different materials used for the women dresses.....they are all so beautiful....there were very few people with weight problems, because they all walked....everything about that time seemed so carefree even though there was a war going on.....just imagine how many people worked in the sky scrapers....WOW !!
Also,food was rationed bcuz of the war.( as well as no fast food places or not nearly as many anyway) It's still like that in NY in that you don't see as many really overweight people there due to walking;-)
I was born in 1950 in Connecticut. In the 1950s New York was still civil and people dressed up to go out to eat. (Only in the mid 60s did we stop dressing up to go out to eat.) Being a pedestrian back then was much easier: you did not have to contend with fast cyclists riding down sidewalks as if they were 'entitled' to do anything they wanted to do. In fact, there were NO urban cyclists back then! The ONLY homeless were the drunks on Skid Row, no where else.
Today, it is all about 'in your face rights' and rude behavior. This is progress????? Young people: Why don't YOU be the arbiter of that question? - David Lyga
I was 3 years old. Wonderful trip back in time.
So much of this seems so familiar even today, yet so very different at the same time. we live in a period with our technology that people back then would regard in the realm of science fiction.
While our manners may have deteriorated, at the same time, we don't live with the fear of certain diseases that were rampant then. Has technology improved our lives since then? Well, I suppose it's a matter of perspective.
Sadly, in our eagerness to modernize everything, we discarded a lot of good stuff just because we saw it as old fashioned. Like tossing the baby out with the dirty water.
good point regarding seeing things as something they might of experienced in Metropolis. The bad thing is they would first have to experience the run down period of NYC from 1965 to about 1995s before it got cleaned up. 30 years of drugged out junkies, gang members bullying and terrorizing everyone, spray painting graffiti everywhere, the smell of urine and crap before finally experiencing 9/11 and the aftermath.. then around 2007 the first smart phones comes out (Iphone) and techcronocity to follow.
This isn't far enough back for them to really marvel at anything we have now. They are not that removed from us. Many of these people lived long enough to see the home computer and some even the beginnings of cell phones.
I always enjoy looking at old film like this, especially when it's in colour.
I particularly liked the music, whether it "fits" the film or not.
I think I even found, and bought, Sleep Convention one day ...
Thank you
I keep imagining how people would react if you'd walk around with a smartphone and earpods.
You would probably get run over!
Much like in 1978, when I entered the public view wearing the Original SONY WALKMAN and its orange foam headphones. People didn't know what it was, assumed I was profoundly deaf and needed some sort specialized device for the hard of hearing! BTW, a SONY WALKMAN with the gun metal blue casing cost $350 in 1978!
It's weird thinking 99% of all these people are dead.
Yeah, and it's even creepier to realize that someday people will look at films of us, when we're all dead too.
I thought the same
In 1943 you were like dead, too (unborn) and you didn't care, the same for them now in 2018.
I was going to comment exactly that friend. It's strange we see people who are already dead for several years or decades in this video. Enough hurts the heart.
It's weird seeing the same comment on every video like this.
GREAT MOVIE
A thought: I figure most of the guys in uniform that we see in the film were there on leave, or in transit... I wonder how many of them made it through the war and came home alive?Another thought: if you took a camera around New York today, and filmed the same locations, would it look as nice? As others have commented, people don't seem to dress nearly as nice as they do in this film.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s looking at this makes me think I was born in the wrong era things were all better back than
Please, please tell me what this lovely piece of piano music is? It fits the atmosphere and beautiful grandeur of the city so well !!
Thank you for video. Very interesting !
Curious choice of music..
I've seen enough of these vids now to know how the comments will run - you know, those were the good ol' days when everyone dressed properly and was well behaved (etc).
Yes, I do believe you because I'm old enough to sort of remember. I also watched a lot of old movies growing up, but Hollywood never really told it like it was though. I wish I could have known the real thing. The closest you'd get would be to spend an afternoon hanging around an old guy telling war stories or Yankee stories.
Then in 1972 while still in high school, I took a field trip to the UN. Driving around, it seemed like on every street corner were a couple of guys bumming cigarettes and saying "its tough all over, kid".
Tough? Maybe, I don't know. In 1978, I moved there for a time. The feeling I got then was that no one was in control of the city anymore, like all those proper and well behaved people had moved to California or Florida, leaving a great big void behind. The archetypical movie of the period was "Dog Day Afternoon" which seemed to sum up the city well. In central park mimes were harassing businessmen on their way to lunch. I wonder if they did that back in 1943. And then in the 80's, everyone started wearing black, almost like it was a form of protest or something. Goodbye NYC of old forever....
Anyway, I left after a year and a half. The city always fascinated me but I concluded that I could not possibly live there without a ton of money. You were considered to be an idiot if you did not want to be rich.
Which is why the video make me sad because I don't think you needed to be rich to be happy in NYC in 1943. For one all the old things - cars, signs, buildings etc were shinier and newer and not just black and white either.:) But also, the country was united and NYC was its heart.
And I swear, one of the girls shown briefly in the vid looks like Judy Garland. :) With the gloves and hand bags, I can smell the perfume too.
@Ken Aldrich. Yup, I noticed the Judy lookalike as well. looking back to another era is interesting and it's easy to say things were better then. Well some things were but not everything by any means. Movie clips like this show us how people back then made an effort to look good when they went to Midtown or to offices in Lower Manhattan. Today's streets look more like they make an effort to look either as down and out as they can - more like a 3rd World scenario, or dressed like they're going to play sport of some kind.
Ken Aldrich amen
At 11.14 I see Oliver Hardy (Babe). A really beautiful video and for once I actually enjoy the music to go with it, thanks so much for something so touching!.
So many people in this video had a son, brother, father, etc fighting in WW2. Must have weighed so heavily.
Awesome thank you for the Time capsule backwards love it
The 3rd Avenue Railway streetcar under the 3rd Ave. El on the Bowery looks almost like the east side of Philadelphia where the Market Street subway come out of the tunnel to run over the street near the Ben Franklin Bridge back in that era.
When people dressed beautifully and respected
their value 😊
Amazing...back in the civilized world when America was still America...land of the free and home of the brave.
I Love the old NYC
People Dressed So Fine Back Then !!
75 years ago; amazing!
Class ! Super !
Beautiful 😍 ❤️😍❣️ Very nice.
I like how the soldier glares right at Don...and it's a soldier who LOOKS like Don. It's like, "why are YOU knocking around NYC with a camera? I'm living in a barracks getting harassed 18 hours a day...why aren't you?"
+Paul Lindemeyer
I think it IS Don looking into the camera. Could he have been home on leave and changed into uniform for one shot? Who knows?
Breath taking.
a good time to be in manhattan